CLASSROOM TESTS.

Prof. Vernica prez Ifd rocha, feb, 2011.

Aims of this part:

To reflect upon the value of

regular testing in class and the importance of testing particular skills. To reflect upon the effectiveness of different types of tests. To reflect upon the design of simple classroom tests.

SCHEDULE FOR THIS PART:

REVISE SOME THEORETICAL ASPECTS (To

activate schemata or/and clarify concepts )

ANALISE SOME SAMPLES OF REAL TESTS Questions and contributions are welcome at any

part of the delivery !

DEFINITION:
Summative assessment (or Summative

evaluation) refers to the assessment of the learning and summarizes the development of learners at a particular time. After a period of work, e.g. a unit for two weeks, the learner sits for a test and then the teacher marks the test and assigns a score. The test aims to summarize learning up to that point. The test may also be used for diagnostic assessment to identify any weaknesses and then build on that using formative assessment.

Extracted from Wikipedia, Internet.

COMPARING:
ASSESSMENT FOR LEARNING:
ASSESSMENT OF LEARNING:
Document achievement or Support ongoing student

growth Inform students about themselves The users are students, teachers and parents.
Teachers role: To offer

mastery of standards. Inform others about students

The users are programme

descriptive feedback to students. To involve students in assessment.

planners, supervisors, students,teachers and parents Teachers role: To help students meet standards. To interpret results for parents (reports).

The value of testing:

They tell the teacher what the student can or

cannot do, how successful her/his teaching has been and what areas need to be taught/revised in the future.
They tell the students how well they are

progressing and in what aspects they need to focus attention still.

When a test is a good test

It is VALID (content, construction, face)
It is RELIABLE (test/scorer) It is PRACTICAL (plausible to be administrated) It has NO NEGATIVE EFFECTS (no negative

backwash)

Areas to be tested:
LANGUAGE
To test what students have

SKILLS
To find out what students can

learnt:
GRAMMAR VOCABULARY SPELLING PRONUNCIATION

do:
LISTENING READING SPEAKING WRITING

GRAMMAR VOCABULARY SPELLING PRONUNCIATION LISTENING READING SPEAKING WRITING

What is the teacher trying to test?

1.

2.
3. 4. 5.

Can students follow directions? Can they form the simple past correctly? Can they describe their family? Do they know the parts of the house? Can they understand a description of their town?

Testing receptive skills:

If the aim is to test reading or listening, students

should not be asked to write too much.

The students should not be able to guess the correct

answer without understanding the text.

The questions should be reasonably easy to set a mark.

TESTING GRAMMAR AND WRITING:

It is easy to test grammar . As there is a definite answer,

marking is easy.
If the test only focuses on grammar, it will tell us very

little about the real abilities the student has to express meaning .

MARKING FREE WRITING TESTS:

THE MAIN DIFFICULTIES ARE THAT:
The student is likely to make mistakes of different

kind. There is no single correct answer.

RUBRICS

1. Watch the corrections of sample 1. How do you think the students felt when he saw the corrections? Why? 2. Correct sample 2 in your own way. What score would you give that student? (out of 20) 3. Now, score sample 2 using a set score for ORGANIZATION, PUNCTUATION, CONTENT and VOCABULARY. Did you score it exactly the same? What were the differences you found this time? 4. What was the most formative correction according to the students point of view?

THIS IS THE END OF OUR SUMMER COURSE, THANKS FOR YOUR HELP.
Now, there is something I need to ask you

An evaluation of this course!

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